The Gold Coast Colony’s Infant Welfare Clinics During the Great Depression
This paper employs archival documents to research how the Gold Coast colonial government worked with European women medical doctors at preventive health to sustain infant and child welfare clinics. After the First World War, the objective of the colonial government and medical officers was to preven...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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David Publishing Company
2018
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Cultural and religious studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 6, Issue: 8, Pages: 471-478 |
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infant and child welfare clinics
B Gold Coast women and children B the Great Depression B European women medical doctors B Gold Coast Branch of the Red Cross Society B Percy Selwyn-Clarke B interwar years |
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| Summary: | This paper employs archival documents to research how the Gold Coast colonial government worked with European women medical doctors at preventive health to sustain infant and child welfare clinics. After the First World War, the objective of the colonial government and medical officers was to prevent child mortality and child morbidity. European women medical doctors working with the government and in private practice at infant and child welfare clinics cared for African pregnant women, mothers, and children not older than three years old. European women medical doctors at infant and child welfare clinics educated the community. In 1932, the Great Depression peaked and Percy Selwyn-Clarke in the health service needed to increase funds and staff. Selwyn-Clarke established the Gold Coast Local Branch of the British Red Cross Society to work at the infant and child welfare clinics. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-2177 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cultural and religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17265/2328-2177/2018.08.005 |